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  • Subject: Re: [BL] HELP!!! busybox fdisk and linux extended
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:20:48 -0700

sindi keesan wrote:
>
> The cfdisk that came with BL2 does not make extended linux partitions.

According to this,
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/IBM7248-HOWTO/cfdisk.html, cfdisk
automatically makes extended partitions as needed.

> fdisk -l says:
> Unable to seek on /dev/hdb.
>
> cfdisk: fdisk /dev/hdb says
> FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 4: Partition ends before sector 0.

It seems as though your partition table got corrupted (due to some
kind of error?).

> How do I fix this problem other than transferring files to a different
> drive and reformatting this one with dd?

I think you would need to use a more advanced partitioning tool, one
designed to fix partition table errors. If you happen to have a backup
of the partition table/boot sector area, and did not change anything
else, you should be able to restore that and try again. Otherwise I
don't know of any way, except for re-partitioning.

> Another drive let me make a fourth primary partition as DOS extended with
> a linux partition in that, but it messes up the drive letters on hda which
> is four DOS partitions.

What is the difference between DOS and linux extended? AFAIK they are the
same.

Were the drive letters scrambled in DOS?

David




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